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Someone else's post about coming into work and catching their boss in a compromising position got me thinking of funny office stories of my own. (Although alot less traumatizing). The best one I can remember is from my last job-a cat got loose in the plant and found it's way into my boss's office. My co-worker and I hear meowing, and go into the office to investigate. We find a tiny kitten curled up underneath the desk. I start calling to the kitten to come out-and here comes boss man. He asks "What are you doing?" and lets out a yell when he sees the kitten " Get it out of here!!! Get it out!!" Little did we know-he was deathly afraid of cats. He made us shoo it out of his office with a yard stick and refused to go anywhere near his office until he was positive it was gone. I have never seen a grown man be so terrified of something so cute and fuzzy.. Please share your funny office stories!

I was one of 5 people in the office early one morning (3 girls 2 guys) and I walk over to the printer and see a bra laying right in front of it. I called my boss over to show her and she picked it up by the strap turned around and yelled "did someone lose something"? The other chick grabbed her own chest and turned really red and said it was hers and it must have fallen off.

I still wonder how she thinks we believe a bra with straps fell off and fell out of a shirt with sleeves, how did she not notice her bra wasn't on and how it really ended up on the floor.

I was once picked out by a student to be her representative on a committee. It seems that the policy of the institution was to let the accuser pick out their member, the accused picks out their member and the personnel dept picks out the 3rd member. Then we 3 form a committee and go decide if there was any sexual harassment going on. Of course, she was accusing the VP of the place. You can imagine how my career at that place went after that was all over. Needless to say I relocated to sunnier climes.

I was once picked out by a student to be her representative on a committee. It seems that the policy of the institution was to let the accuser pick out their member, the accused picks out their member and the personnel dept picks out the 3rd member. Then we 3 form a committee and go decide if there was any sexual harassment going on. Of course, she was accusing the VP of the place. You can imagine how my career at that place went after that was all over. Needless to say I relocated to sunnier climes.

I was working as a network engineer for a defense contractor at an AF base, and recieved a call about a loss of network connectivity in one of the older buildings on base. We did our normal troubleshooting, but couldn't reach the switch in that building. A co-worker and I went over to troubleshoot, found that the switch was up but the uplink was dark. Long story short, we traced it down to the fibre connection, so my co-worker "volunteered" to trace the line through the false ceiling starting at the comm closet. 30 minutes later as the building was filling with senior officers attending a meeting my co-worker, who by now was 3/4 of the way through the building tracing the line, let out a shrill girlie shriek, jumped off the ladder and ran down the hall, follwed by a VERY pissed off racoon. Needless to say, it was complete pandimonium, with people runing all over. It took 45 minutes for the animal control folks to corral this racoon, after chasing it throughout the building, with the racoon pissing everywhere it could.

Luckily we only had to repair the fibre where the racoon had chewed through it, and not replace any of the PC's that had been sprayed. Made for an interesting morning!

One of the office gals was out back having a smoke and spotted a kitten prowling around. (We are a factory and *way* removed from any residential area for this to be a pet from.) Of course, she brought it inside, and much ohhhing & ahhhing ensued among the other office ladies. Finally came the inevitable 'maybe it's hungry'. Well, I guess it was...after bits & scraps from lunches were put on a plate and set down, this little ball of fluff...well, anybody remember the tasmanian devil from the Bugs cartoons? Instant shredded arms and hands for the unlucky soul holding it, ripped blouse, pen & pencil cups, water bottles, sticky notes all toppled and rent asunder as it tore across the desk. It proceeded to mow down on the plate, all the while purring and emitting meows of contentment, until someone tried to pet it. This little fur pile, barely needing both hands to hold, turned and put forth such a 'I'm gonna kick yer a$$' hiss & growl. I was doubled up laughing.

Happy ending...the kitten got adopted by a factory worker...but the law was set, no more animals in the office.

A female coworker and I were trying to plug in a CAT5 cable in CEO's office. Of course the plug was behind one of those wrap around desks. This desk was very heavy and shoved quite close to the wall. There was a small gap, but only a couple of inches. I was not able to reach down between the desk and the wall. My coworker was able to bend over the desk and get her arm down to plug the cable in, but when she attempted to pull her arm out she became stuck. I was bent over her trying to pull her arm free when the CEO's secretary came into the office. Needless to say this appeared to be a somewhat compromising position. At any rate we finally got her arm free and it took us quite awhile to live down the incident. Fortunately there were no pictures.

Had to get a snake out of a printer, due to a cute blonde secretary bringing it to work and leaving another cute blonde secretary to "look after it" while she popped out fro something or other. Of course, the damn thing slithers into the printer.

Being "the IT guy" I was of course requested to remove it (unharmed). This led to some very detailed discussion as to the exact type of snake (I'm not particularly scared of them, but poisonous is poisonous..)

To cut the story short, after carefully dismantling the entire printer, I got the snake out and returned it to the very relieved owner. Landed up dating for a while - dontcha just love a win-win?

This one actually just happened to me last night :) But I do a lot of late night work in the office and when I miss the very last train home I take advantage of the pull out couch (not like that but just sleeping)

I woke up naked :/ at the start of business day when people started walking in the office.

This one actually just happened to me last night :) But I do a lot of late night work in the office and when I miss the very last train home I take advantage of the pull out couch (not like that but just sleeping)

I woke up naked :/ at the start of business day when people started walking in the office.

This one actually just happened to me last night :) But I do a lot of late night work in the office and when I miss the very last train home I take advantage of the pull out couch (not like that but just sleeping)

I woke up naked :/ at the start of business day when people started walking in the office.

I've got another one- One particularly slow day, again at my other job, I am going around the office finishing up my daily duties. One duty happened to be changing out the backup tapes for the next day. I place my finger on the reader for the server room, open the door, reach for the light switch, and nothing happens. The only light I see in the server room is the ones coming from the servers themselves. Again, I try flipping the light switch on and off-nothing. So I go back to my desk and grab a flashlight. Shining my flashlight into the server room, I realize my problem- half of our ceiling is now on the floor. We had gone through a 3 week period with nothing but extreme humidity-which instantly started eating away at the already half rotten 20 year old ceiling tiles. Light fixtures were hanging by wires-seated directly above our main server rack. I immediately went to get my boss and said, "Um, you need to come see this." he actually tried to brush me off and I said, "No, you really really need to come see this now." I was surprised, but he actually had a sense of humor about it and we both laughed from that day on about us being so busy that we didn't even notice the ceiling falling in.